Judaism

"The Hebrew religion encompasses the philosophic transition from polytheism to monotheism; it is an evolutionary link between the religions of evolution and the religions of revelation. The Hebrews were the only western people to follow their early evolutionary gods straight through to the God of revelation."

Gnosticism

Gnosticism (after gnôsis, the Greek word for "knowledge" or "insight") is the name given to a loosely organized religious and philosophical movement that flourished in the first and second centuries CE. The exact origin(s) of this school of thought cannot be traced, although it is possible to locate influences or sources as far back as the second and first centuries BCE, such as the early treatises of the Corpus Hermeticum, the Jewish Apocalyptic writings, and especially Platonic philosophy and the Hebrew Scriptures themselves.

A one-time only event of local universe significance occured on this planet August 21, 7 B.C. A Paradise Creator Son was born a mortal flesh and blood man among men. He grew, became increasingly aware of who he was and his mission to be played out on this world, but for the whole local universe of his making. With authority and grace he showed God to man, and man to God, unapologetically correcting the misguided and manipulative concepts preached in the Temple.

The Temple masters were not pleased with this interloper pointing out the corruptions of their teachings and its lucrative control over the people, but when he turned over the tables of their moneychangers they went balistic and nailed him to a cross on April 7, 30 A.D.

It's worth mentioning, as part of his mission Christ gave Notice to all within his domain:
"He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" John 14:9
"I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6
"Surely I come quickly." Revelation 22:20

Theology

Theology is the study of religions. Reality Roars specifically treats Judaism and Christianity and their respective apocrypha and pseudipigrapha, the gnostic writings, the Sumerian contributions and some of the "other" writings you may find of interest.

All history, all law and all civilizations began with religion. Take some time each day to read the writings you haven't read or revisit the ones that intrigue you the most. Your knowledge and intellectual preception of all subjects is critical to the wisdom of all creation.

Eurasia

"Asia is the homeland of the human race ... born in the highlands of what is now Afghanistan ... persisted for over one-half million years. Here the Sangik peoples differentiated from the Andonic stock, and Asia was their first home, their first hunting ground, their first battlefield." UB 79:0.1

America

In 1775, the Revolutionary War between the colonies and Britain started. On July 4, 1776, people from the thirteen colonies created the United States Declaration of Independence that said they were free. The Americans won the war and then the battle for freedom really began.

Going Where DarwinFeared to Tread

War Is A Racket

Communism's45 Goals

Science

There always exists the danger that the purely physical scientist may become afflicted with mathematical pride and statistical egotism, not to mention spiritual blindness. Matter and spirit and the state intervening between them are three interrelated and interassociated levels of the true unity of the real universe. UB 133:5

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and their societies. Its main subdivisions are social and cultural anthropology, describing the workings of societies, linguistic anthropology, investigating the influence of language in social life, and biological or physical anthropology, concerned with the development of the human organism.

Archaeology

Archaeology is the study of human activity, the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology is both a social science and a branch of the humanities. Archaeologists study human prehistory and history.

Going Where DarwinFeared to Tread

ArdipithecusRamidus

Human GenomeProject

Money

"For the love of money is the root of all evil," said Paul to Timothy.

"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation." -James A. Garfield

“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” -James Madison

“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.” The Rothschild brothers of London writing to associates in New York, 1863.

Secrets

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings." -John F. Kennedy

Opposed we may be, but that doesn't stop The Controllers from practicing such repugnant behavior. We have so many secret societies it makes a head spin ... secret agencies, secret governments, secret laws, secret money, secret handshakes ... secret everything that has to do with that self-chosen class of elites hell-bent on owning it all — the planet, the atmosphere, outer space and everything in, on, or near those locations. If it moves, breathes, or has mass, they want to own it. That especially includes you and me, my darlin's. Can't have any freewill on the loose causing problems for the totalitarian New World Order (NWO). Acronym that backwards (OWN) and have a stroke! -Gail Bird Allen

Power

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." -Thomas Jefferson

"Knowledge is power." -Francis Bacon

"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best." -Edward Abbey

"To enjoy privilege without abuse, to have liberty without license, to possess power and steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement—these are the marks of high civilization." UB 48:7.8

"Jesus had a perfect grasp of the situation; he possessed unlimited power, which might have been utilized in the furtherance of his mission, but he was wholly content with means and personalities which most people would have regarded as inadequate and would have looked upon as insignificant. He was engaged in a mission of enormous dramatic possibilities, but he insisted on going about his Father's business in the most quiet and undramatic manner; he studiously avoided all display of power." UB 138:6.5

Conspiracy

1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2. A group of conspirators.
3. Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.

"If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act." -Don DeLillo (b. 1926), U.S. author. Libra, pt. 2, “In Dallas” (1988)

"When the final roll was called, the corporeal members of the Prince's staff were found to have aligned themselves as follows: ... Nod and all of the commission on industry and trade joined Caligastia ("the devil")." UB 67:4.1

"The evil one concluded that the only hope for success lay in the adroit employment of suitable persons belonging to the upper strata of the Nodite group, the descendants of his onetime corporeal-staff associates." UB 75:2.3 ...and that explains how the CABAL was born.

Disabuse yourself of the idea that governments, corporations and NGO's do not engage in conspiracy for power and profit ... conspiracy was bred in the bed of capitalism. -Gail Bird Allen

History of The Urantia Book

Several members of this group who participated in the preliminary "contacts" which led up to the appearance of the Urantia Papers, had had considerable experience in the investigation of psychic phenomena. This group early arrived at the conclusion that the phenomena connected with the personality, who was later associated with the Urantia Papers, was in no way similar to any other well-known type of psychic performance - such as hypnosis, automatic writing, clairvoyance, trances, spirit mediumship, telepathy, or double personality.

It should be made clear that the antecedents of the Urantia Papers were in no way associated with so-called spiritualism -- with its seances and supposed communication with spirits of departed human beings.

Unique to The Urantia Book

The Urantia Book presents approximately 1000 concepts covering theology, science, history, philosophy, cosmology and others. Of these concepts there have been 64 identified as unique to The Urantia Book and presented for the first time on our planet.

Millions of other inhabited planets
Scores of different celestial personalities
Evolutionary origin of humankind and the physical realms
Intimation of multiple Creator Deities
"The First Source and Center" and "Havona"
"superuniverses" and "the Supreme Being"
"Master Spirits" and "outer space"
"Power Directors" and numerous orders of angels
"Thought Adjusters" (the spirit within)
The morontia level of existence
The Lucifer rebellion...

Revelation

The religious tendencies of the human races are innate; they are universally manifested and have an apparently natural origin; primitive religions are always evolutionary in their genesis. As natural religious experience continues to progress, periodic revelations of truth punctuate the otherwise slow-moving course of planetary evolution. UB 103:0.2

There have been many events of religious revelation but only five of epochal significance. These were as follows:The Dalamatian teachings. The true concept of the First Source and Center was first promulgated on Urantia by the one hundred corporeal members of Prince Caligastia' s staff.The Edenic teachings. Adam and Eve again portrayed the concept of the Father of all to the evolutionary peoples.Melchizedek of Salem. This emergency Son of Nebadon inaugurated the third revelation of truth on Urantia.Jesus of Nazareth. Christ Michael presented for the fourth time to Urantia the concept of God as the Universal Father, and this teaching has generally persisted ever since.The Urantia Papers.UB 92:4.4

The Urantia Book

The Urantia Book is a revelation given to our world by a commission of celestial personalities authorized and tasked to the mission by the Ancients of Days who rule over the seventh superuniverse that our world, named Urantia by the celestial administration, is part of. Over a twenty plus year period in the early 1900's this group of celestial personalities made contact with two prominent doctors, Dr. William Sadler and his wife Dr. Lena Sadler, that eventually culminated in The Urantia Book.

...except for contacts with the midwayers, no two contacts were alike. Seldom did we meet the visiting personalities more than once. Every contact was entirely different from any and all that had gone before. And all of this experience was an extensive and liberal preparatory educational training in the expansion of our cosmology, theology and philosophy..." Dr. William Sadler

Evolutionary religion is sentimental, not logical. It is man's reaction to belief in a hypothetical ghost-spirit world—the human belief-reflex, excited by the realization and fear of the unknown. Revelatory religion is propounded by the real spiritual world; it is the response of the superintellectual cosmos to the mortal hunger to believe in, and depend upon, the universal Deities. Evolutionary religion pictures the circuitous gropings of humanity in quest of truth; revelatory religion is that very truth. UB 92:4.3

Parts of the book

Read The Urantia Book

Although I leave breadcrumbs throughout the site to intice my visitors to read The Urantia Book it is best read from start to finish. I promise, you will know more about the physical and celestial realms than 98% of the world population.

This group of papers was sponsored by a commission of twelve Urantia midwayers acting under the supervision of a Melchizedek revelatory director.
The basis of this narrative was supplied by a secondary midwayer who was onetime assigned to the superhuman watchcare of the Apostle Andrew.

The Mission

The mission of RealityRoars.com is first to bring together a collection of material to support what is really going on in our world as opposed to what we're told is going on, and second to collect all the evidence I can find supporting the concepts presented in The Urantia Book about our world, the cosmos it's a part of and the celestial realm that oversees and upholds all of it.

Subjects of Focus

There are several 'ingredients' in the reality recipe that are brought together in pursuing the whole pie. The first is theology as religion was/is the first civilizer of man. The second is history as the events of the past explain the present and indicate the future. The third is science as we have to know about new discoveries and developments and their affects on our lives. The fourth is conspiracy as that seems to be the modus operandi of that arrogant group of self-appointed totalitarian rulers currently holding the reins of our world. Fifth is The Urantia Book as it is truly the ultimate whipped cream topping.

Why It's Important

I firmly believe that what we don't know will and does hurt us. The policy makers of this world count on us not knowing because if we don't know, we aren't concerned, and if we aren't concerned we don't speak up — and that's exactly the way they want it. I also firmly believe that everyone should be informed in order to make sound and intelligent decisions for themselves and their families. Everyone's intellect is critical to the smooth and moral working of the whole.

I try to learn something new everyday and I hope you do too.

About

Welcome to RealityRoars.com! With me it's all about knowing everything about everything that piques my interest. As it happens I'm interested in a variety of subjects and I've never been afraid of research and reading. I gladly share my findings with you here.

I'm the seventh-great niece of three signers (Ross, Read and Wilson) of the Declaration of Independence, two of them (Read and Wilson) also signing The Constitution for the united States of America and one of them (James Wilson) being a Framer and Founding Father as well as one of the first Supreme Court justices appointed by George Washington. I blame them for any political outrage or hissy fit I may throw in response to the aggregious criminal conspiracy infecting our freedoms, our fortunes and our pursuit of happiness. I'm convinced it's an inherited familial trait.

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Originally published in the 1950s and 1960s, these study aids were authored by Dr. William S. Sadler and Alvin Kulieke to serve as texts to train teachers and students of the Fifth Epochal Revelation. The first of the 2003 re-printings of these texts, used by some of the founding members of the Urantia movement, will be available in May of 2003, with three more volumes to follow in early Fall. These new 6" x 9" paperback books, printed on top-quality paper, feature full-color covers and are thematically organized with discussions on Part I of The Urantia Book, comparisons between the New Testament and The Urantia Book, discussions of the science of The Urantia Book, and many other subjects. These volumes will certainly be a great help to students seeking a greater understanding of this profound gift to mankind.

Originally published in the 1950s and 1960s, these study aids were authored by Dr. William S. Sadler and Alvin Kulieke to serve as texts to train teachers and students of the Fifth Epochal Revelation. The first of the 2003 re-printings of these texts, used by some of the founding members of the Urantia movement, will be available in May of 2003, with three more volumes to follow in early Fall. These new 6" x 9" paperback books, printed on top-quality paper, feature full-color covers and are thematically organized with discussions on Part I of The Urantia Book, comparisons between the New Testament and The Urantia Book, discussions of the science of The Urantia Book, and many other subjects. These volumes will certainly be a great help to students seeking a greater understanding of this profound gift to mankind.

Originally published in the 1950s and 1960s, these study aids were authored by Dr. William S. Sadler and Alvin Kulieke to serve as texts to train teachers and students of the Fifth Epochal Revelation. The first of the 2003 re-printings of these texts, used by some of the founding members of the Urantia movement, will be available in May of 2003, with three more volumes to follow in early Fall. These new 6" x 9" paperback books, printed on top-quality paper, feature full-color covers and are thematically organized with discussions on Part I of The Urantia Book, comparisons between the New Testament and The Urantia Book, discussions of the science of The Urantia Book, and many other subjects. These volumes will certainly be a great help to students seeking a greater understanding of this profound gift to mankind.

Love

Love is truly contagious and eternally creative. (p. 2018) “Devote your life to proving that love is the greatest thing in the world.” (p. 2047) “Love is the ancestor of all spiritual goodness, the essence of the true and the beautiful.” (p. 2047) The Father’s love can become real to mortal man only by passing through that man’s personality as he in turn bestows this love upon his fellows. (p. 1289) The secret of a better civilization is bound up in the Master’s teachings of the brotherhood of man, the good will of love and mutual trust. (p. 2065)

Prayer

Prayer is not a technique of escape from conflict but rather a stimulus to growth in the very face of conflict. (p. 1002) The sincerity of any prayer is the assurance of its being heard. … (p. 1639) God answers man’s prayer by giving him an increased revelation of truth, an enhanced appreciation of beauty, and an augmented concept of goodness. (p. 1002) …Never forget that the sincere prayer of faith is a mighty force for the promotion of personal happiness, individual self-control, social harmony, moral progress, and spiritual attainment. (p. 999)

Suffering

There is a great and glorious purpose in the march of the universes through space. All of your mortal struggling is not in vain. (p. 364) Mortals only learn wisdom by experiencing tribulation. (p. 556)

Angels

The angels of all orders are distinct personalities and are highly individualized. (p. 285) Angels....are fully cognizant of your moral struggles and spiritual difficulties. They love human beings, and only good can result from your efforts to understand and love them. (p. 419)

Our Divine Destiny

If you are a willing learner, if you want to attain spirit levels and reach divine heights, if you sincerely desire to reach the eternal goal, then the divine Spirit will gently and lovingly lead you along the pathway of sonship and spiritual progress. (p. 381) …They who know that God is enthroned in the human heart are destined to become like him—immortal. (p. 1449) God is not only the determiner of destiny; he is man’s eternal destination. (p. 67)

Family

Almost everything of lasting value in civilization has its roots in the family. (p. 765) The family is man’s greatest purely human achievement. ... (p. 939)

Faith

…Faith will expand the mind, ennoble the soul, reinforce the personality, augment the happiness, deepen the spirit perception, and enhance the power to love and be loved. (p. 1766) “Now, mistake not, my Father will ever respond to the faintest flicker of faith.” (p. 1733)

History/Science

The story of man’s ascent from seaweed to the lordship of earthly creation is indeed a romance of biologic struggle and mind survival. (p. 731) 2,500,000,000 years ago… Urantia was a well developed sphere about one tenth its present mass. … (p. 658) 1,000,000,000 years ago is the date of the actual beginning of Urantia [Earth] history. (p. 660) 450,000,000 years ago the transition from vegetable to animal life occurred. (p. 669) From the year A.D. 1934 back to the birth of the first two human beings is just 993,419 years. (p. 707) About five hundred thousand years ago…there were almost one-half billion primitive human beings on earth. … (p. 741) Adam and Eve arrived on Urantia, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago. (p. 828)

From the Inside Flap

What’s Inside?

Parts I and II

God, the inhabited universes, life after death, angels and other beings, the war in heaven.

Part III

The history of the world, science and evolution, Adam and Eve, development of civilization, marriage and family, personal spiritual growth.

Part IV

The life and teachings of Jesus including the missing years. AND MUCH MORE…

Excerpts

God, …God is the source and destiny of all that is good and beautiful and true. (p. 1431) If you truly want to find God, that desire is in itself evidence that you have already found him. (p. 1440) When man goes in partnership with God, great things may, and do, happen. (p. 1467)

The Origin of Human Life, The universe is not an accident... (p. 53) The universe of universes is the work of God and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures. (p. 21) The evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin…Urantia [Earth] is your starting point. … (p. 1225) In God, man lives, moves, and has his being. (p. 22)

The Purpose of Life, There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. (p. 365) This new gospel of the kingdom… presents a new and exalted goal of destiny, a supreme life purpose. (p. 1778)

Jesus, The religion of Jesus is the most dynamic influence ever to activate the human race. (p. 1091) What an awakening the world would experience if it could only see Jesus as he really lived on earth and know, firsthand, his life-giving teachings! (p. 2083)

Science, Science, guided by wisdom, may become man’s great social liberator. (p. 909) Mortal man is not an evolutionary accident. There is a precise system, a universal law, which determines the unfolding of the planetary life plan on the spheres of space. (p. 560)

Life after Death, God’s love is universal… He is “not willing that any should perish.” (p. 39) Your short sojourn on Urantia [Earth]…is only a single link, the very first in the long chain that is to stretch across universes and through the eternal ages. (p. 435) …Death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery. (p. 159)

About the Author

The text of The Urantia Book was provided by one or more anonymous contributors working with a small staff which provided editorial and administrative support during the book's creation. The book bears no particular credentials (from a human viewpoint), relying instead on the power and beauty of the writing itself to persuade the reader of its authenticity.

Originally published in the 1950s and 1960s, these study aids were authored by Dr. William S. Sadler and Alvin Kulieke to serve as texts to train teachers and students of the Fifth Epochal Revelation. The first of the 2003 re-printings of these texts, used by some of the founding members of the Urantia movement, will be available in May of 2003, with three more volumes to follow in early Fall. These new 6" x 9" paperback books, printed on top-quality paper, feature full-color covers and are thematically organized with discussions on Part I of The Urantia Book, comparisons between the New Testament and The Urantia Book, discussions of the science of The Urantia Book, and many other subjects. These volumes will certainly be a great help to students seeking a greater understanding of this profound gift to mankind.

Originally published in the 1950s and 1960s, these study aids were authored by Dr. William S. Sadler to serve as texts to train teachers and students of the Fifth Epochal Revelation. These new 6" x 9" paperback books, printed on top-quality paper, feature full-color covers and are thematically organized. These volumes will certainly be a great help to students seeking a greater understanding of this profound gift to mankind.

Originally published in the 1950s and 1960s, these study aids were authored by Dr. William S. Sadler to serve as texts to train teachers and students of the Fifth Epochal Revelation. These new 6" x 9" paperback books, printed on top-quality paper, feature full-color covers and are thematically organized. These volumes will certainly be a great help to students seeking a greater understanding of this profound gift to mankind.

The Bookshelf

Love

Love is truly contagious and eternally creative. (p. 2018) “Devote your life to proving that love is the greatest thing in the world.” (p. 2047) “Love is the ancestor of all spiritual goodness, the essence of the true and the beautiful.” (p. 2047) The Father’s love can become real to mortal man only by passing through that man’s personality as he in turn bestows this love upon his fellows. (p. 1289) The secret of a better civilization is bound up in the Master’s teachings of the brotherhood of man, the good will of love and mutual trust. (p. 2065)

Prayer

Prayer is not a technique of escape from conflict but rather a stimulus to growth in the very face of conflict. (p. 1002) The sincerity of any prayer is the assurance of its being heard. … (p. 1639) God answers man’s prayer by giving him an increased revelation of truth, an enhanced appreciation of beauty, and an augmented concept of goodness. (p. 1002) …Never forget that the sincere prayer of faith is a mighty force for the promotion of personal happiness, individual self-control, social harmony, moral progress, and spiritual attainment. (p. 999)

Suffering

There is a great and glorious purpose in the march of the universes through space. All of your mortal struggling is not in vain. (p. 364) Mortals only learn wisdom by experiencing tribulation. (p. 556)

Angels

The angels of all orders are distinct personalities and are highly individualized. (p. 285) Angels....are fully cognizant of your moral struggles and spiritual difficulties. They love human beings, and only good can result from your efforts to understand and love them. (p. 419)

Our Divine Destiny

If you are a willing learner, if you want to attain spirit levels and reach divine heights, if you sincerely desire to reach the eternal goal, then the divine Spirit will gently and lovingly lead you along the pathway of sonship and spiritual progress. (p. 381) …They who know that God is enthroned in the human heart are destined to become like him—immortal. (p. 1449) God is not only the determiner of destiny; he is man’s eternal destination. (p. 67)

Family

Almost everything of lasting value in civilization has its roots in the family. (p. 765) The family is man’s greatest purely human achievement. ... (p. 939)

Faith

…Faith will expand the mind, ennoble the soul, reinforce the personality, augment the happiness, deepen the spirit perception, and enhance the power to love and be loved. (p. 1766) “Now, mistake not, my Father will ever respond to the faintest flicker of faith.” (p. 1733)

History/Science

The story of man’s ascent from seaweed to the lordship of earthly creation is indeed a romance of biologic struggle and mind survival. (p. 731) 2,500,000,000 years ago… Urantia was a well developed sphere about one tenth its present mass. … (p. 658) 1,000,000,000 years ago is the date of the actual beginning of Urantia [Earth] history. (p. 660) 450,000,000 years ago the transition from vegetable to animal life occurred. (p. 669) From the year A.D. 1934 back to the birth of the first two human beings is just 993,419 years. (p. 707) About five hundred thousand years ago…there were almost one-half billion primitive human beings on earth. … (p. 741) Adam and Eve arrived on Urantia, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago. (p. 828)

From the Inside Flap

What’s Inside?

Parts I and II

God, the inhabited universes, life after death, angels and other beings, the war in heaven.

Part III

The history of the world, science and evolution, Adam and Eve, development of civilization, marriage and family, personal spiritual growth.

Part IV

The life and teachings of Jesus including the missing years. AND MUCH MORE…

Excerpts

God, …God is the source and destiny of all that is good and beautiful and true. (p. 1431) If you truly want to find God, that desire is in itself evidence that you have already found him. (p. 1440) When man goes in partnership with God, great things may, and do, happen. (p. 1467)

The Origin of Human Life, The universe is not an accident... (p. 53) The universe of universes is the work of God and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures. (p. 21) The evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin…Urantia [Earth] is your starting point. … (p. 1225) In God, man lives, moves, and has his being. (p. 22)

The Purpose of Life, There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. (p. 365) This new gospel of the kingdom… presents a new and exalted goal of destiny, a supreme life purpose. (p. 1778)

Jesus, The religion of Jesus is the most dynamic influence ever to activate the human race. (p. 1091) What an awakening the world would experience if it could only see Jesus as he really lived on earth and know, firsthand, his life-giving teachings! (p. 2083)

Science, Science, guided by wisdom, may become man’s great social liberator. (p. 909) Mortal man is not an evolutionary accident. There is a precise system, a universal law, which determines the unfolding of the planetary life plan on the spheres of space. (p. 560)

Life after Death, God’s love is universal… He is “not willing that any should perish.” (p. 39) Your short sojourn on Urantia [Earth]…is only a single link, the very first in the long chain that is to stretch across universes and through the eternal ages. (p. 435) …Death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery. (p. 159)

About the Author

The text of The Urantia Book was provided by one or more anonymous contributors working with a small staff which provided editorial and administrative support during the book's creation. The book bears no particular credentials (from a human viewpoint), relying instead on the power and beauty of the writing itself to persuade the reader of its authenticity.

92:4.1 Revelation is evolutionary but always progressive. Down through the ages of a world's history, the revelations of religion are ever-expanding and successively more enlightening. It is the mission of revelation to sort and censor the successive religions of evolution. But if revelation is to exalt and upstep the religions of evolution, then must such divine visitations portray teachings which are not too far removed from the thought and reactions of the age in which they are presented. Thus must and does revelation always keep in touch with evolution. Always must the religion of revelation be limited by man's capacity of receptivity.

92:4.2 But regardless of apparent connection or derivation, the religions of revelation are always characterized by a belief in some Deity of final value and in some concept of the survival of personality identity after death.

92:4.3 Evolutionary religion is sentimental, not logical. It is man's reaction to belief in a hypothetical ghost-spirit world—the human belief-reflex, excited by the realization and fear of the unknown. Revelatory religion is propounded by the real spiritual world; it is the response of the superintellectual cosmos to the mortal hunger to believe in, and depend upon, the universal Deities. Evolutionary religion pictures the circuitous gropings of humanity in quest of truth; revelatory religion is that very truth.

92:4.4 There have been many events of religious revelation but only five of epochal significance. These were as follows:

92:4.5The Dalamatian teachings. The true concept of the First Source and Center was first promulgated on Urantia by the one hundred corporeal members of Prince Caligastia' s staff. This expanding revelation of Deity went on for more than three hundred thousand years until it was suddenly terminated by the planetary secession and the disruption of the teaching regime. Except for the work of Van, the influence of the Dalamatian revelation was practically lost to the whole world. Even the Nodites had forgotten this truth by the time of Adam' s arrival. Of all who received the teachings of the one hundred, the red men held them longest, but the idea of the Great Spirit was but a hazy concept in Amerindian religion when contact with Christianity greatly clarified and strengthened it.

92:4.6The Edenic teachings. Adam and Eve again portrayed the concept of the Father of all to the evolutionary peoples. The disruption of the first Eden halted the course of the Adamic revelation before it had ever fully started. But the aborted teachings of Adam were carried on by the Sethite priests, and some of these truths have never been entirely lost to the world. The entire trend of Levantine religious evolution was modified by the teachings of the Sethites. But by 2500 B.C. mankind had largely lost sight of the revelation sponsored in the days of Eden.

92:4.7Melchizedek of Salem. This emergency Son of Nebadon inaugurated the third revelation of truth on Urantia. The cardinal precepts of his teachings were trust and faith. He taught trust in the omnipotent beneficence of God and proclaimed that faith was the act by which men earned God's favor. His teachings gradually commingled with the beliefs and practices of various evolutionary religions and finally developed into those theologic systems present on Urantia at the opening of the first millennium after Christ.

92:4.8Jesus of Nazareth. Christ Michael presented for the fourth time to Urantia the concept of God as the Universal Father, and this teaching has generally persisted ever since. The essence of his teaching was love and service, the loving worship which a creature son voluntarily gives in recognition of, and response to, the loving ministry of God his Father; the freewill service which such creature sons bestow upon their brethren in the joyous realization that in this service they are likewise serving God the Father.

92:4.9The Urantia Papers. The papers, of which this is one, constitute the most recent presentation of truth to the mortals of Urantia. These papers differ from all previous revelations, for they are not the work of a single universe personality but a composite presentation by many beings. But no revelation short of the attainment of the Universal Father can ever be complete. All other celestial ministrations are no more than partial, transient, and practically adapted to local conditions in time and space. While such admissions as this may possibly detract from the immediate force and authority of all revelations, the time has arrived on Urantia when it is advisable to make such frank statements, even at the risk of weakening the future influence and authority of this, the most recent of the revelations of truth to the mortal races of Urantia.

This 400th anniversary edition of the King James Version of the Bible is a reprint of the 1611 text, in an easy-to-read roman font instead of the black-letter type of the original. The original capital letters, many of which are pictorial, have been restored to each chapter in order to replicate the visual appeal of the early editions.

The 1611 text is followed page-for-page and line-for-line, and all misprints are reproduced rather than corrected. The large body of preliminary matter, which includes genealogies, maps, and lists of readings, is also included. The text of the 1611 edition differs from modern editions of the King James Version in thousands of details, and this edition is the most authentic version of the original text that has ever been published.

The volume concludes with an essay by Gordon Campbell on the first edition of the King James Bible.

About the Author

Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies, Department of English at the University of Leicester

"Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth." Isaiah 40:26

Urantia Namesake

by Troy R. Bishop

Most persons who read The URANTIA Book have probably wondered at some time or other about the meaning of the word URANTIA. The question of the meaning of Urantia can be addressed in terms of Earth languages, which came after it, or the celestial language of which it is a part. The latter, if feasible, seems the most meaningful approach. One starting point in this direction is to look for patterns in celestial place-naming conventions in The URANTIA Book. At various universe levels, it is generally--but perhaps not always--the lower that names the higher; the higher does not generally reveal itself by name to the lower. This pattern begins with Paradise Deity, the First Source and Center (22:4). The lower often derive their dwelling-place name from the name of the assistant ruler at some level above them. There may be many reasons for this; for example, it is the assistant, not the superior, who deals with the level below.

Such a convention could explain the name of our system, Satania(182:5-6). Previous to the rebellion, Lucifer ruled as the system sovereign (601:3-5), assisted by his lieutenant, Satan(602:4). Satan was the individual actually to contact with the individual worlds of the system (602:1;604:3;609:6;611:3). To the system worlds, Satan was the immediate representative of system administration, until he and Lucifer were dethroned.

Place-naming for the second in command was also observed when the Planetary Prince, Caligastia, named the planetary headquarters city Dalamatia, in honor of his lieutenant, Daligastia(743:4). In a less pronounced but very important example, the sphere of the order of Melchizedeks is named Melchizedek, which is the name of the person who is a co-source of the order and, under Gabriel, Michael, and the Mother Spirit, their leader.

In an exciting and spectacular example of the celestial convention of place-naming for the second in command, our entire superuniverse, Orvonton, comprising one-seventh of the organized and inhabited creation of space and time, is named after the Infinite Spirit's seventh Paradise satellite (198:5), headquarters of Supreme Executive Number Seven--the assistant through whom Master Spirit Number Seven, ruler of Orvonton, administers his domain. As the sphere Melchizedek is named after the high being Melchizedek, the seventh executive world of the Infinite Spirit might be named after the high executive who administers the superuniverse from it. His name thus might be Orvonton; or it might be Orvon, the ton suffix constituting a place designation, as in Washington or Salvington. (Though these English suffixes might not be part of the higher languages of creation, they are used in the rendering of many higher words presented in The URANTIA Book.) One might tend to discount the terminal ton as just such a suffix, but such an ending appears in the name of at least one being at the Paradise level: Majeston, where it seems that the terminal syllable is actually part of the root name. It is true in this case, however, that the t in the ending is a part of the stem--not a suffix. In the case of the sphere Melchizedek, there is no suffix added to the name of the individual for whom the sphere is named. Being free to choose either Orvon or Orvonton as the name for the Seventh Supreme Executive, this discussion will choose Orvon, though the other choice would not change the essence of what follows.

Urantia and its historical derivatives are ancient and also ultimately foreign. In ancient Ur words--for example, Urartu and Urmia--Ur is pronounced oor. Similarly, the initial--and perhaps the terminal--a in Urantia would be pronounced with an ah sound, as in the final a in garage. Thus, before modernization and anglicanization--or rather Americanization, Urantia might properly be pronounced oor - ahn - tee - ah. If the initial o in Orvonton is pronounced with the same ancient and pre-English sound of oo, the comparative pronunciation of the two words is:

Oor - ahn - tia --- Urantia

Oor - vahn - ton --- Orvonton

One might suspect that the v in Orvonton has become silent over time to produce Urantia; but both Orvonton and Urantia are revealed celestial words, probably not subject--or as subject--in their celestial habitat to such evolution. The dropping of the v from Orvonton to Urantia might indicate a subtle difference in meaning: for example, a diminutive form. The suffixes in the two names can be considered to be equivalent, since they are place suffixes.

Oron as a celestially derived variant of Orvon is suggested in an intriguing and potentially spectacular example. On the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea, where the sunken Hecataeus Ridge, suspected as being the Edenic Peninsula, joins the coast, a river flows inland in a direct line that would include the ridge, were it not abruptly detoured by a sudden upthrust of mountains parallel to the coast line. (Upthrust in connection with the sinking of Eden? See 826:6) This river, flowing where the great river of Eden might have flowed, is called the Orontes. Pronouncing the word aloud reveals its kinship to Urantia.

The possible metamorphosis of Oor - vahn to Oor - ahn can reveal great meaning in the name Urantia and in time-honored derivatives of Ur or Oor, as in Urartu, the civilization arising at Lake Van after the arrival there of the loyal staff of the rebellious Planetary Prince. This possiblilty of Urantia--least of Satania--as a namesake of the administrator of the entire superuniverse of Orvonton may be a linguistic instance, in a celestial setting, of the least truly being greatest.

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Personal Position

Personal Position:
I've come to realize that 'truth' boils down to what we 'believe' the facts we've gathered point to. We only 'know' what we've 'experienced' firsthand. Everything else - what we read, what we watch, what we hear - is what someone else's gathered facts point to and 'they' 'believe' is 'truth', so that 'truth' seems to change in direct proportion to newly gathered facts divided by applied plausibility. Though I believe there is 'truth', until someone celestial who 'knows' all the facts parts the heavens and throws us a scroll titled "Here Are ALL The Facts And Lies In The Order They Happened," I can't know for sure exactly what "the whole truth' on any given subject is, and what applies to me applies to everyone.~Gail Bird Allen

Never in your long ascendancy will you lose the power to recognize your associates of former existences. Always, as you ascend inward in the scale of life, will you retain the ability to recognize and fraternize with the fellow beings of your previous and lower levels of experience. Each new translation or resurrection will add one more group of spirit beings to your vision range without in the least depriving you of the ability to recognize your friends and fellows of former estates.

And here is mystery: The more closely man approaches God through love, the greater the reality -- actuality -- of that man. The more man withdraws from God, the more nearly he approaches nonreality -- cessation of existence. When man consecrates his will to the doing of the Father's will, when man gives God all that he has, then does God make that man more than he is.

"And do you not remember that I said to you once before that, if you had your spiritual eyes anointed, you would then see the heavens opened and behold the angels of God ascending and descending? It is by the ministry of the angels that one world may be kept in touch with other worlds, for have I not repeatedly told you that I have other sheep not of this fold?"

But we know that there dwells within the human mind a fragment of God, and that there sojourns with the human soul the Spirit of Truth; and we further know that these spirit forces conspire to enable material man to grasp the reality of spiritual values and to comprehend the philosophy of universe meanings. But even more certainly we know that these spirits of the Divine Presence are able to assist man in the spiritual appropriation of all truth contributory to the enhancement of the ever-progressing reality of personal religious experience—God-consciousness.

When you are through down here, when your course has been run in temporary form on earth, when your trial trip in the flesh is finished, when the dust that composes the mortal tabernacle "returns to the earth whence it came"; then, it is revealed, the indwelling "Spirit shall return to God who gave it." There sojourns within each moral being of this planet a fragment of God, a part and parcel of divinity. It is not yet yours by right of possession, but it is designedly intended to be one with you if you survive the mortal existence.

And the greatest of all the unfathomable mysteries of God is the phenomenon of the divine indwelling of mortal minds. The manner in which the Universal Father sojourns with the creatures of time is the most profound of all universe mysteries; the divine presence in the mind of man is the mystery of mysteries.

To every spirit being and to every mortal creature in every sphere and on every world of the universe of universes, the Universal Father reveals all of his gracious and divine self that can be discerned or comprehended by such spirit beings and by such mortal creatures. God is no respecter of persons, either spiritual or material. The divine presence which any child of the universe enjoys at any given moment is limited only by the capacity of such a creature to receive and to discern the spirit actualities of the supermaterial world.

Paradise is the eternal center of the universe of universes and the abiding place of the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, the Infinite Spirit, and their divine co-ordinates and associates. This central Isle is the most gigantic organized body of cosmic reality in all the master universe. Paradise is a material sphere as well as a spiritual abode. All of the intelligent creation of the Universal Father is domiciled on material abodes; hence must the absolute controlling center also be material, literal. And again it should be reiterated that spirit things and spiritual beings are real.

Culture presupposes quality of mind; culture cannot be enhanced unless mind is elevated. Superior intellect will seek a noble culture and find some way to attain such a goal. Inferior minds will spurn the highest culture even when presented to them ready-made.

True liberty is the associate of genuine self-respect; false liberty is the consort of self-admiration. True liberty is the fruit of self-control; false liberty, the assumption of self-assertion. Self-control leads to altruistic service; self-admiration tends towards the exploitation of others for the selfish aggrandizement of such a mistaken individual as is willing to sacrifice righteous attainment for the sake of possessing unjust power over his fellow beings.

How dare the self-willed creature encroach upon the rights of his fellows in the name of personal liberty when the Supreme Rulers of the universe stand back in merciful respect for these prerogatives of will and potentials of personality! No being, in the exercise of his supposed personal liberty, has a right to deprive any other being of those privileges of existence conferred by the Creators and duly respected by all their loyal associates, subordinates, and subjects.

There is no error greater than that species of self-deception which leads intelligent beings to crave the exercise of power over other beings for the purpose of depriving these persons of their natural liberties. The golden rule of human fairness cries out against all such fraud, unfairness, selfishness, and unrighteousness.